Is a 6 Farad capacitor too big?

[on1wheel01 10+ year member]

a fawkin thread full of fail. Im so sick of seeing caps in local cars and tryin to explain why they are crap.

 

[stangman67 10+ year member]

Thread full of EPIC fail. I can't believe how many dumbasses give advice when they have no clue what they are talking about. Caps give you cleaner sound, WTF?

 

[emilimo701 10+ year member]

troll. why else would he explicitly state fuses? abc6812@comcast... sounds made up

 

[Wildbillpb 10+ year member]

lol the one dude has 1 post and the other has 15 its almost like people are making accounts to give advice 4 years late, and its wrong at that.

hmmmm troll maybe right...

 

[05fronty 5,000+ posts]

only a flux will work brah!

 

[Phoenix Risen 10+ year member]

rsilver has to have the flux capacitor to handle the jigawatts of power that he is putting out

 

[jco1385 5,000+ posts]

those PA amps are the tro0f bro

fire them shits up, and you instantly at 88mph

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[hatedonmostly 5,000+ posts]

those PA amps are the tro0f brofire them shits up, and you instantly at 88mph

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lol'd

 

[ThatChevyGuy 5,000+ posts]

lol @ ruhtards

 

[rsilver1211]

So I don't know how I came across this thread in the first place but I see this guy asking over and over again can his cap be to big. I am far from a pro when I comes to car stereo installation but I have done my share of basic installs for my self and friends and try and give this guy an answer. Now that I look at it I believe the reason I tried to answer the question is because I just did a 6 frad cap for one of my amps and I also found it frustrating that no one would answer this guy.

Its now 4 months later and I come across what happened after I tried to help this guy.

I was called a troll and I have no idea what I am talking about. I was made fun of for trying, I did give my email address so If some one had something to show me what was wrong I could possibly learn something. This did not happen.

User rsilver1211

email abc6812@ Comcast.net

 

[DBBOOM 10+ year member]

So I don't know how I came across this thread in the first place but I see this guy asking over and over again can his cap be to big. I am far from a pro when I comes to car stereo installation but I have done my share of basic installs for my self and friends and try and give this guy an answer. Now that I look at it I believe the reason I tried to answer the question is because I just did a 6 frad cap for one of my amps and I also found it frustrating that no one would answer this guy.Its now 4 months later and I come across what happened after I tried to help this guy.

I was called a troll and I have no idea what I am talking about. I was made fun of for trying, I did give my email address so If some one had something to show me what was wrong I could possibly learn something. This did not happen.

User rsilver1211

email abc6812@ Comcast.net

The cap is too big.

 

[9515ROB 10+ year member]

wayyyyyyyyy to big

 

[sexy 10+ year member]

I will try to share a little on this for what its worth and it’s not worth much. Back in lets say 1970 if you had one bad spark plug wire under your hood it would be able to introduce enough noise into your radio that you could easily hear it. A small capacitor about the size of your thumb could be added to the back of the radio to filter out the noise. Back in the day there were many noise sources like points and condensers, distributer caps, and non resister plugs. So in short caps were and are used to filter out noise along with other things. In today’s cars there is very little chance of noise being a problem because so many things have seen major improvements.

One other area that I want to share on is charging and discharging without going into a lot of detail about ESR values and electrical principals that won’t be understood anyways. A cap is designed to discharge or deliver its stored potential much faster than a battery and that same design also allows a cap to be recharged much faster than a battery. We may soon see caps that have far better values and use in cars due to the design improvements around electric cars.

 

[soloXgt 10+ year member]

holy old thread batman

 

[ahole-ic]

FULL of misinformation. All the "caps are evil" nut huggers came out of the woodwork for this one. If they had ANY electronics knowledge at all they'd know how silly they look in this thread.